Dating Changed My Perspective On Love And Life For Good
Learned from my first-hand experiences.
Last week, I reconnected with a friend after 8 years. We almost lost touch in all those years and didn’t know anything about each other’s whereabout except social media updates. After our usual catch ups, we both realized how we were and how our lives turned out.
Of course, we both have grown a lot and gained experience since our college days to adulthood and how she found her love of life out of nowhere a couple of years back. As we conversed, the story of how I am single and how online dating is my life now, eventually came up. My bafflement at the daily trials and tribulations of online dating made me realize how different we are to those who found their SOs back in the day.
Sometimes we have to break our illusions so we can understand what’s real when we find it. Eventually, you come out on the other end and realize that you’d go through it all again to get to where you are now.
If there’s one thing I learned in the past couple of years of being single is that it never hurts to lower your expectations while strengthening your standards.
Your time is far too precious to waste on someone who doesn’t fit the bill, but you can’t expect anyone — especially someone you just met — to be…
